Will *any* mobile OS emerge dominant by 2015?

From Apple Insider...Surprise. Survey finds Mapsgate not affecting iPhone 5 purchasing decisions. They also give comparisons to a similar survey they did for the 4S.

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"Despite the media attention surrounding both the Apple Maps issue and the Apple Lightning port issue, neither has had an impact on the massive numbers of buyers queuing up to buy the iPhone 5," said Dr. Paul Carton, ChangeWave's vice president of Research. "Rather, the survey results show both issues hardly rank as bumps in the road."

Impossible. I've read no less than two dozen comments and forum posts from people who are putting their foot down and switching to Android due to the Maps debacle!

I don't recall very many people predicting doom from this. I know I didn't.

The question is whether it is part of a trend. Reputations are build and lost over a series of issues. And, if Windows taught us anything , people will put up with a lot and still, on balance, keep the product. Yet here we are, with Microsoft in decline, just like IBM before it.

Regarding iPad vs iPad mini and GS III vs GS III mini. Apple dropped the number to avoid this sort of confusion. Samsung is marketing the same specific model with wildly different specs. If it were the iPad 3 vs iPad 3 Mini there would be an analogue.

I don't recall very many people predicting doom from this. I know I didn't.

I'm just poking fun at the shills on forums and blogs who have no intention of owning an Apple product claiming Maps is what's stopping them from getting an iPhone 5 or is making them switch to Android/WP8.

I think the initial rush of Maps criticism was poking fun of the wonky 3D (melted Brooklyn Bridge, for example). All that's died down now and people are finding that the either the Maps work "good enough" for their use cases or that it's not a big enough deal for them to switch to another platform.

It will be new iPad (3) against mini iPad, unless they call it mini iPad 2 it should be compared against the current version.

In the marketplace, people will compare it to the current products, ie both 'iPad 2' and 'new iPad' ... along with competing tablets ... and choose according to need/preference/whim.

New iPad mini (assumed nomenclature) will have some specs (rumour='not-retina') lower than 'new iPad'. So, hypothetically 'last-gen' screen res, 'this-gen' cpu process etc, in order to sell at lower price with suitable performance and margins. It will, of course be the 'first-gen' iPad mini.

From Apple Insider...Surprise. Survey finds Mapsgate not affecting iPhone 5 purchasing decisions. They also give comparisons to a similar survey they did for the 4S.

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"Despite the media attention surrounding both the Apple Maps issue and the Apple Lightning port issue, neither has had an impact on the massive numbers of buyers queuing up to buy the iPhone 5," said Dr. Paul Carton, ChangeWave's vice president of Research. "Rather, the survey results show both issues hardly rank as bumps in the road."

Impossible. I've read no less than two dozen comments and forum posts from people who are putting their foot down and switching to Android due to the Maps debacle!

I've read hundreds, if not thousands of comments and forum posts from people who say how shitty Android is and how fragmented, choppy, unresponsive, etc and how people are switching to Apple from android...and yet sales are way up and phones flying off the shelves. unpossible.

I don't recall very many people predicting doom from this. I know I didn't.

I'm just poking fun at the shills on forums and blogs who have no intention of owning an Apple product claiming Maps is what's stopping them from getting an iPhone 5 or is making them switch to Android/WP8.

Much like the shills on forums and blogs who hav no intention of owning an Android product claiming it is fragmented, no apps, full of crap apps, slow buggy OS, etc. etc?

I'm just poking fun at the shills on forums and blogs who have no intention of owning an Apple product claiming Maps is what's stopping them from getting an iPhone 5 or is making them switch to Android/WP8.

Much like the shills on forums and blogs who hav no intention of owning an Android product claiming it is fragmented, no apps, full of crap apps, slow buggy OS, etc. etc?

Not at all the same. One is claiming they *would* buy the device if not for <insert the one glaring flaw here>. The other is not pretending they have any interest in owning the device, they are just pointing out its flaws in general.

I'm just poking fun at the shills on forums and blogs who have no intention of owning an Apple product claiming Maps is what's stopping them from getting an iPhone 5 or is making them switch to Android/WP8.

Much like the shills on forums and blogs who hav no intention of owning an Android product claiming it is fragmented, no apps, full of crap apps, slow buggy OS, etc. etc?

Not at all the same. One is claiming they *would* buy the device if not for <insert the one glaring flaw here>. The other is not pretending they have any interest in owning the device, they are just pointing out its flaws in general.

bull. Who is saying that? People are just pointing out the flaws of the Apple products.

Benjamin Poynter's In A Permanent Save State is a surreal and visually striking interactive narrative that the creator says imagines the spiritual afterlife of seven overworked laborers who have committed suicide, alluding to real-life events at Foxconn's electronics manufacturing plants in 2010. But the game was quietly removed from the App Store less than an hour after it went live earlier today.

It's unclear which part of Apple's guidelines the company claims the game violated, but sources familiar with Apple's review process have pointed us to app guidelines against "objectionable content," (16.1) and depictions which "solely target a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity" (15.3) as the most likely culprits.

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In the past, Apple has dutifully quashed apps it considers too controversial, especially when they critique issues that hit too close to home. Paolo Pedercini's Phone Story — a playable parody which looks at the ethical concerns surrounding the lifespan of a smartphone, from the mining of rare earth minerals to the hazardous smelting of abandoned components — was also banned from the App Store on grounds of being "objectionable." More recently, another political app, Drones+, which uses maps and news headlines to send alerts whenever a US drone strike occurs, was banned on similar grounds.

But I'd assume the worst falls within the scope of possibilities, the banality of the App Store review process doesn't render it immune from being considered a social evil.

As for the next post, It doesn't require fanaticism, malice or even conspiracy on the part of Apple's app reviewers for these app rejections to set a pattern which normalises restricting social/political dissent. I realise there are other channels and possibilities for this expression, but I'm still personally disappointed that these app developers aren't encouraged, or allowed to encourage us to think different.

The last time someone posted a complaint that an app had been rejected without sufficient cause and I wasted my time investigating I came to the conclusion that it had no redeeming qualities. There's always exceptions, but if an app has such an important societal pact it should be relatively easy to get the issue of its rejection across. Otherwise you are wasting your audiences time.

The last time someone posted a complaint that an app had been rejected without sufficient cause and I wasted my time investigating I came to the conclusion that it had no redeeming qualities. There's always exceptions, but if an app has such an important societal pact it should be relatively easy to get the issue of its rejection across. Otherwise you are wasting your audiences time.

While your anecdote is interesting, in my view Drones+ has sufficient merit that I'd like it on my iPhone.

From Apple Insider...Surprise. Survey finds Mapsgate not affecting iPhone 5 purchasing decisions. They also give comparisons to a similar survey they did for the 4S.

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"Despite the media attention surrounding both the Apple Maps issue and the Apple Lightning port issue, neither has had an impact on the massive numbers of buyers queuing up to buy the iPhone 5," said Dr. Paul Carton, ChangeWave's vice president of Research. "Rather, the survey results show both issues hardly rank as bumps in the road."

Impossible. I've read no less than two dozen comments and forum posts from people who are putting their foot down and switching to Android due to the Maps debacle!

"On the state of Android, Mr. Schmidt shares that the platform currently has 500 million handsets in the wild and should reach 1 billion by mid-2013. He claims four times as many Android phones are activated as iPhones -- 1.3 million per day (on average)."

Currently 500 million devices out there, with 500 million more expected to be sold in the next 8.5 months. Growth rate seems solid.

Yes, developers should have the PR interests of Apple in mind as the first priority when creating an app.

What a fantasy world you live in.

Pardon me? What the fuck has my play on words, and pedantry, got to do with your misguided reaction? The post you're misreading is a criticism of Apple and the general-dumbing down that it has been partially responsible for.